While the survival game recently blew its eighth candle, Facepunch unveiled the results of its year 2021, a year crowned with success for Rust whose sales now exceed 12 million copies.
Rust has been part of the video game landscape since 2013, when he took his first steps on Steam in early access. Since then, the years have passed and the sandbox survival game has come a long way.
Update after update, Rust continued to carve out a place for itself in the hearts of gamers, consolidating its place more than ever as many competitors disappeared as quickly as they had come.
Even today, Rust continues to unleash passions
The Facepunch nugget saw a resurgence in popularity in 2020 thanks to a new adventure that brought together the biggest names on Twitch on one single server, a period in which footfall has broken records, and it doesn’t seem not about to stop.
Rust retains his place at the top
As the year 2022 begins, Facepunch has decided to post a recap of the year that has just passed. Among the many data presented, by far the immediately obvious figure is the number of copies of Rust, on consoles and PC, which stands at over 12 million. An impressive figure which is accompanied by more than 1 million DLC sold.
Rust celebrated his eighth birthday last December
Thanks to the multiple initiatives of the streamers, the survival game also performed well on Twitch with 1.37 million viewers for 300 million hours watched.
With such performances in 2021, we dare not imagine what 2022 has in store for us. Especially since Facepunch has already started teasing new content.